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ATTENTION !!! # HOUSE VOTES TODAY to LEGALIZE WARRANTLESS WIRETAPS # Update
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[quote:RoXY:MV8xOTg1ODYyXzMzMzk3Nzk1X0FCQUIxNzlD] [b]House Approves Rep. Lamar Smith's Bill To Keep Spying On Americans[/b] by Mike Masnick Sep. 13, 2012 As was expected, despite not knowing the details of how the feds interpret the FISA Amendmens Act, which grants massive spying and surveillance power to the feds - in fact, while proactively stopping any efforts to find out more about the interpretation, the House of Representatives today approved Lamar Smith's FISA Amendment's Act by a vote of 301-118. You can see which representatives voted which way at that link. The bill would extend the current rules (and the secret interpretation) for another five years. Republicans, who are supposedly against bigger government, only had 7 members vote no, while the remaining 111 no votes came from Democrats. There had been an attempt to introduce amendments, but that was shot down procedurally. And an hour debate did little to get to the heart of the matter. Rep. Zoe Lofgren fought the good fight, pointing out that "I think the government needs to comply with the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution all the time... We can be safe while still complying with the Constitution of the United States." However, Rep. Dan Lungren - who previously had insisted that there was no evidence that the NSA was abusing its powers, while refusing to even ask the NSA for basic info on how it was using the powers - insisted based on absolutely nothing that "this is critical to the protection of the American people." [b] CONTINUE: http://informationliberation.com/?id=40943[/b] [/quote]
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House Votes Today to Legalize Warrantless Wiretaps
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Activist Post
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson
Only days after a NSA whistleblower has sounded the alarm about the government's massive spying campaign on American citizens, the U.S. Congress who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution are set to legalize warrantless wiretaps with the reauthorization of the secretive FISA Amendments Act.
This legislation is the perfect example of why there is no difference between the political parties. Their rhetoric may differ when it's politically expedient, but when push comes to shove they always vote for tyranny.
Obama said he was against the Patriot Act to get elected because the majority of Americans opposed it, but then he supported its extension not for one year, but for four years. Obama repeatedly attacked Bush's warrantless wiretaps as unconstitutional, but now he's expected to sign this 5-year reauthorization once the unprincipled legislators rubber stamp it today.
It seems the only time Congress acts in a bipartisan way is when they're trampling the Constitutional rights of Americans.
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